Edgar Savisaar, one of the leaders of the Estonian independence movement in the late 1980s as well as the head of the government when Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in August 1991, died on 29 December at 72.
Politician and artist Heinz Valk said in a speech delivered at the "Slava Ukraini" charity concert on Wednesday that people in the West need to accept that the cozy, breezy times are not coming back for a while.
Thirty years after Estonia restored its independence after the Soviet occupation, the voices that led its pivotal Singing Revolution will finally reach American ears – through a musical about the events that took place in Estonia from 1988 to 1991, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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